September 11, 2026

The man orchid is Orchis anthropophora, a chalk grassland orchid named for its odd flowers. Each flower is

A tolumnia orchid needs to dry fast after watering, within a few hours, not a day or two.

The Cooktown orchid is Dendrobium bigibbum, a warm growing epiphyte native to Cape York. It also grows on

A habenaria orchid tuber can rot within a week if you water it during winter dormancy. That single

Plant tags at nurseries still read Odontoglossum, but taxonomists reclassified most of the genus back in 2008. Growers

A grower checks the bottom of a wooden basket and finds a fat bud pushing through the slats.

A swan orchid is any orchid in the genus Cycnoches. It is named for the long arched column

Never dig or pick a single magenta pink flower found on a bare stem in a bog in

A dendrobium speciosum orchid is a giant Australian lithophyte. It is a plant built to grow on bare

A single flower spike on a psychopsis orchid can keep producing blooms for ten years or longer. That